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Trump vs. Harvard in a Political Wrestling Match • 55m ▶
• April 21, 2025
• 6,700 Words • 205 Comments • Reply
Back when I was a young child my grandfather enjoyed watching professional wrestling on his old black-and-white television, so I occasionally did the same. In those distant days, television wrestling possessed almost no money nor prestige and was barely even considered a real sport, probably tied with roller derby as occupying the bottommost-tier of audience... Read More
American Death Throes
• April 18, 2025
• 1,700 Words • 221 Comments • Reply
They say the most dangerous animal you can encounter in the wild is one that is dying and cornered. A trapped coyote will lash out and attack you with every fiber of its being, even if it’s mortally wounded. Especially if it’s mortally wounded. The American Empire and the so-called state of Israel are a... Read More
Department of Homeland Security agents detaining Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk last week. (WhoIsCentreLeft/Wikim edia Commons/Public Domain)
American Freefall
• April 3, 2025
• 1,500 Words • 213 Comments • Reply
Some people worth citing this week. They speak of different matters, but when we put all their apples and oranges into a basket we discover they belong together, their bright colors confronting us with a challenge: It is time to do something — something very few of us have considered until now. Rashid Khalidi, in... Read More
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The United States Has Become a Two-Tier Country
What has happened to the Constitutional Republic where all are equal under law?
• April 3, 2025
• 2,100 Words • 122 Comments • Reply
I recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazism (not the German political Party but its core ideology) is racism, which allows some ethnicities (or “races”) to be advantaged by law, and other ethnicities to be discriminated against by... Read More
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The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education • 57m ▶
• March 31, 2025
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We may be witnessing the ongoing destruction of one of the greatest pillars of postwar American global influence and hegemony. Late last week an astonishing event occurred in American society, and video clips of that incident quickly went viral across the Internet. A 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey was walking across... Read More
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Some New Tales from the Darkside
Beatings and arrests continue both in the US and the Middle East
• March 27, 2025
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The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen. There are four basic issues that are being examined by both the media and by... Read More
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)
• March 26, 2025
• 8,900 Words • 14 Comments • Reply
Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the extent of semantic satiation. Liberals and leftists often use fascism as a blanket term for anything right-wing politicians represent and Republicans equally use “communism” to denote Democratic or left-wing politics. Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher... Read More
President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017. Matty Stern / U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Betar: The Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics
• March 26, 2025
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A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and... Read More
Surrendering to Authoritarianism
• March 24, 2025
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I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to “remove individuals from campus and/or arrest them... Read More
President Donald Trump in Congress to deliver a joint-session speech on March 4. (White House / Flickr)
The Zionists Within
• March 18, 2025
• 1,900 Words • 199 Comments • Reply
During Donald Trump’s first four years in the White House, the stranger to Washington’s infernal ways got nothing done: That cabal of various Deep State appendages — the Democratic Party’s upper echelons, the intelligence apparatus, the Justice Department and the F.B.I., and corporate media — made sure of that. Trump seems to have thought this... Read More
Protests in Thomas Paine Park against the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. Photo from Wikimedia Commons registered under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud Khalil Releases Statement from Louisiana ICE Detention Center
• March 18, 2025
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Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder with permanent residency, has released his first public statement since his arrest on March 8. He was taken into custody by plainclothes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers in the lobby of his Columbia University apartment complex due to his alleged connection to Hamas. His statement, released Tuesday, was... Read More
Trump’s Intrepid Plan to Completely Abolish Freedom of Speech in America
• March 17, 2025
• 700 Words • 162 Comments • Reply
I’ve made a commitment to be honest about the good and bad that the Trump administration is engaging in. The conundrum I’m facing is that there really isn’t much good to point to. This whole thing is in a death spiral. Trump is calling for Thomas Massie, the man I have pointed out as the... Read More
Mahmoud Khalil NYC detention protest. SWinxy, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Season of the Sophists
• March 15, 2025
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Mahmoud Khalil, 30–year-old holder of a green card permitting him permanently to live and work in the United States, spouse of an American, lettered in his field after study at an Ivy League university, with nothing on his record to suggest criminal activity of any kind: Mahmoud Khalil is now under arrest and awaiting deportation... Read More
Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy
• March 15, 2025
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The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack... Read More
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The Death of Free Speech in America?
You can thank Israel and its many friends
• March 14, 2025
• 1,700 Words • 251 Comments • Reply
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which... Read More
They’re Going to Call You a Used Car Salesman Anyway, So You Might as Well Just Do Car Commercials on the White House Lawn
• March 14, 2025
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Some headlines from the last ten years. You can find millions more. Leftists thought it was a really clever meme. Maybe some of you remember the “Alt-Right” or the “white nationalism” phenomenon of the 2013-2017 era? It was a psychedelic experience in a lot of ways. I feel like it probably had the identical energy... Read More
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• March 12, 2025
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Note: I’m not doing the news anymore, so I am assuming you know what is going on. But I’ll give a brief update, just in case. The Trump Administration has recently begun taking actions to crackdown on criticism of the Jews, at least as aggressively, if not more so, then what the Biden administration did... Read More
Trump’s War on Education
• March 11, 2025
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he attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has nothing to do with fighting antisemitism. Antisemitism is a smoke screen, a cover... Read More
Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
• March 11, 2025
• 1,800 Words • 33 Comments • Reply
Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80 percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on the White House to back Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and Gaza. This campaign includes visits... Read More
Gaza Protest: How Starmer and the Met Have Joined Forces to Quash All Dissent
• January 24, 2025
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Dozens of people were arrested on the weekend at a peaceful demonstration aiming to highlight British complicity in Israel’s slaughter The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a... Read More
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The Government Lies Just Keep On Coming
Candidates don’t understand that a truly strong America means fundamental rights and no wars
• September 19, 2024
• 1,900 Words • 191 Comments • Reply
The Framers of the United States Constitution understood several things very clearly from their experience as a colonial vassal state with only limited legislative or self-governing authority under the rule of Britain’s King George III. That principle lesson learned, justifying a revolution, was that the leader or ruler of a nation must not be allowed... Read More
The End of Western Pluralist Democracy
• September 1, 2024
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No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls of derision. They are turning on their own people in order to prevent protest at a genocide they actively support. Keir Starmer stepped up the pressure on opponents of Zionist genocide on Thursday... Read More
Our Long, Hard Fight for Freedom of Assembly
Freedoms do require constant, active defense
• August 2, 2024
• 2,600 Words • 22 Comments • Reply
This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. It’s a bad time for freedom of speech and assembly. But then, it’s always a bad time for the First Amendment. The latest victim is VDARE.com, a beloved, allied organization of 25 years. Its founder, Peter Brimelow says it has been “murdered” through “unscrupulous lawfare” by... Read More
Watch: Psycho NYC Cops Attack Protesters on the Street for Criticizing Israel, Arrest at Least a Dozen
• May 19, 2024
• 200 Words • 97 Comments • Reply
Graduation is over so the campus protests have cooled down. However, people have not stopped being less angry about Gaza. And the cops have not stopped being less brutal towards anyone who dares question Israel. Jews really are right about the goyim. Imagine that Americans watched the cops sit and allow BLM to burn down... Read More
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Mario Savio's Call to Arms: "Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears and Upon the Wheels"
• May 15, 2024
• 2,600 Words • 137 Comments • Reply
No one in the anti-genocide movement is calling for a general strike, a worker's revolt or disruptive acts of civil disobedience. What they're asking for is a ceasefire and divestment in any company that is profiting from Israel's war in Gaza. These are reasonable requests and entirely appropriate. The problem is that the students making... Read More
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American Pravda: Gaza Protests and the Legend of the Tiananmen Square Massacre • 1h7m ▶
• May 13, 2024
• 8,800 Words • 319 Comments • Reply
The Israel/Gaza conflict is now well into its eighth month as the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians continues unabated, with many tens of thousands of helpless civilians already dead. Despite occasional bleats of feeble disapproval by members of the Biden Administration, America's government has continued to fully support that massacre, providing all the necessary money... Read More
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Biden’s War on Gaza Is Now a War on Truth and the Right to Protest
• May 10, 2024
• 3,300 Words • 127 Comments • Reply
The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed As mass student protests quickly spread to campuses across the United States last week, and others took hold in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the western... Read More
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Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American Society • 54m ▶
• May 6, 2024
• 6,800 Words • 578 Comments • Reply
I think the striking events we have witnessed in American society over the last few months---and especially the last few days---are best understood if we consider a shrewd observation widely misattributed to Voltaire: From the years of my childhood I'd always been aware that political activism and protests were a regular feature of college life,... Read More
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The Beast of Ideology Lifts the Lid on Transformation
• May 6, 2024
• 2,000 Words • 113 Comments • Reply
The police repression of student protests exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza. The Transformation is accelerating. The harsh, often violent, police repression of student protests across the U.S. and Europe, in wake of the continuing Palestinian massacres, exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza.... Read More
Watch: Pro-Palestine Activist at Columbia Yells "Long Live Hamas"
• April 19, 2024
• 400 Words • 29 Comments • Reply
Finally. It was bound to happen eventually. New York Post: Other footage from Wednesday’s protest shows NYPD officers stepping in between tense confrontations of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The same protester who sa
EU Parliament Puts Tiananmen Square Hoax Pillar on Display, Makes Nonsensical Claim They Are Against Censorship
• March 21, 2024
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Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square. If something had happened, whoever it had happened to would have definitely deserved it, but nothing happened. What are they saying happened? CNN: A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” a memorial to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre that was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021,... Read More
The Panic of the Ruling Class
• March 12, 2024
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I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class has cheer-led. His natural gifts... Read More
Following Senate Hearing, Ayatollah Banned from Facebook and Instagram
• February 10, 2024
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Previously: Homosexual Republican Censorship Advocates Cotton and Hawley are Tumors on the Soul of America “Kids Online Safety Act” is Yet Another Gay Internet Censorship and Spying Program Last week, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate to make a new wave of censorship demands against social media companies. Mark Zuckerberg was harassed and... Read More
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The Antisemitic Moment
Maligning critics by Jewish groups to “protect” Israel only damages their credibility
• December 21, 2023
• 2,900 Words • 332 Comments • Reply
In a 2002 interview the former Israeli government minister Shulamit Aloni was asked by Amy Goodman: “Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?” Shulamit Aloni replied “Well, it’s a trick, we... Read More
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Elon Musk and the True History of the ADL • 52m ▶
Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz
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Let's talk about the ADL. Some of your readers may not know that you have written extensively on the ADL and that your analysis prompted Paul Craig Roberts to call you "the bravest man I know." What Roberts was referring to, I think, is your riveting 2018 account of the ADL's shadowy history as well... Read More
On the Nature of Racial Slurs
• August 22, 2023
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Is it ever ok to use the so-called ‘N-word’ in a scholarly context? This year, a university tutor in Australia found out the hard way that the answer in our current political climate is probably no. Whilst teaching an undergraduate class on Ethnic Identity at Monash University, tutor Gary Lacey used the word ‘nigger’ numerous... Read More
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The Hate Crime Purging of “Antisemites” Is Underway!
Saying anything about Israel’s misbehavior can send you to jail
• June 20, 2023
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There have recently been a number of incidents that would be of interest if one has concerns about the sorry state of free speech in Europe and the United States, the so-called “democracies” who tend to boast about their freedoms and the rights of their citizens. The chosen weapon in the US and elsewhere in... Read More
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Is the United States Moving Its Capital to Jerusalem?
American Politicians flock to Israel while dismembering the US Constitution in deference to Jewish power
• May 16, 2023
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It would seem that American politicians and media think that the entire world should rightly conform to the marching orders emanating from Washington, even though that pretense has become a bit shopworn after more than twenty years of pointless wars initiated and sustained by a serious of clueless presidents and Congress. Increasingly, the international community... Read More
Stifling Dissent, One Publisher at a Time
• March 27, 2023
• 800 Words • 15 Comments • Reply
Earlier this month, Arktos Press, a publishing house associated with European New Right, was dealt a sweeping blow by the censors of ideology. The company stated in a press release on March 8: This revelation made me think about our increasingly restricted opportunity to see and read dissenting views even on scholarly topics. One needn’t... Read More
How They Plan to Shut Us Up
• January 20, 2023
• 2,300 Words • 156 Comments • Reply
The campaign to make what I say illegal. Thumbnail credit: Gerald Praschl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. The push is on — harder than ever — not just to ban people like me from Twitter and YouTube, but to make what we say illegal. Sheila... Read More
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The "Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023"
• January 18, 2023
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Sheila Jackson Lee, a Black radical activist Congresswoman from Houston has introduced a bill in the House that would criminalize thought crimes, and in particular it would criminalize sites like The Occidental Observer, but also the much more mainstream Tucker Carlson. This is because it includes “replacement theory” as a possible motivation and would apply... Read More
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Is America a 'Free Country?'
• January 6, 2023
• 3,800 Words • 112 Comments • Reply
White advocates hoped that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter would help restore free speech. We’ve been disappointed so far. However, Mr. Musk has released the “Twitter Files” to a few select journalists, including Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. We now know that current and former government officials and even a congressman pressured the company to... Read More
Free Speech, Race, Realism, and Immigration Patriotism At ASU—Despite Antifa!
• September 6, 2022
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See also by Jared Taylor: Breaking the Sound Barrier on Campus [Updated], September 6, 2022 Arizona State University College Republicans United (ASU CRU) [Tweet them] a splinter Republican college club, made the bold decision to invite American Renaissance Editor Jared Taylor to speak last Friday, September 2, his first campus appearance in some ten years.... Read More
Mr. Bean Speaks Out About Restrictions on Speech
• June 22, 2022
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And now… Mr. Bean. (It’s been a slow news cycle, folks. But just wait. I can make this into something.) Metro: Rowan Atkinson has had his say on cancel culture and the effect it can have on comedy, believing you should be allowed to make jokes about ‘absolutely anything’. Many comedians over recent years have... Read More
Heretics and Halfwits: Furedi’s Freedom-Fighters and the Lethality of Libertarianism
• June 19, 2022
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Enigmas. I’ve been beset by them recently. Last week, I added six piranhas to my big tropical-fish tank. The piranhas were going to look magnificent, sliding in a sleek silver school between the gleaming, multicolored shoals of gentle neon tetras and guppies. But I didn’t have time to watch the piranhas right then. No, I... Read More
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Denying Holocaust Denial
• April 30, 2022
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On April 8, it was announced that Canada would soon be joining an illustrious club: the enlightened nations of the world that have elected to ban so-called Holocaust denial. Depending on how one interprets the law, there are currently 18 nations that either explicitly ban “Holocaust denial” (including Germany, Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Poland, Hungary,... Read More
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Killing the Bill of Rights
Democrats repress dissent to stay in power
• February 15, 2022
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In 2005, President George W. Bush allegedly addressed a meeting of Republicans discussing whether to renew the Patriot Act due to its possible unconstitutionality by angrily blurting out that the Constitution was “just a goddamned piece of paper!” If the story is true, it partly explains the numerous crimes committed by Bush and his associates,... Read More
White House on Censorship: 'More Can be Done'
• February 4, 2022
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It’s one thing when journalists want people deplatformed. Countless articles and columns are veiled demands for censorship. It’s far more serious coming from the White House. Spotify recently posted warning labels on episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcasts about COVID-19. “So, this disclaimer, it’s a positive step,” said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, “but we... Read More
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Killing the First Amendment
How “the Law” fails to deliver Justice
• January 4, 2022
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When one travels nearly anywhere in Europe where Medieval government centers, including courts, remain, one will frequently see the personification of a sometimes blindfolded woman representing Justice holding a sword in one hand and a scale or a scroll in the other. As soon as human beings came together to form governments, one of the... Read More
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Hong Kong: Defending Seditious State Department Agents, Antony Blinken Says America Supports Free Speech
• December 31, 2021
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I found this quote in a Reuters article about the arrest of State Department-funded subversive revolutionary media agents in Hong Kong: I wrote a joke piece about the arrests yesterday. It is simply beyond the pale that the United States would have the nerve to accuse anyone of silencing an independent media. The only reason... Read More
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